Forum: General
April 28th 21, 03:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,964
HDD vs. SSD
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Forum: General
April 24th 21, 06:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,964
HDD vs. SSD
SSD has Toolbox software, and will tell you "Percent Life".
I have no idea how to access this if it's there. Certainly not anything obvious.
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Forum: General
April 24th 21, 03:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,964
HDD vs. SSD
I have a 10 year old Dell that came with an approx 960 GB HDD. 3 years ago I added an approx 240 GB SSD to serve as C: and D: , and elevated the HDD as F: for large items, photos, music, etc. Both...
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Forum: General
June 4th 20, 12:15 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 993
Clock Discrepancy
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g=20time.
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Forum: General
June 3rd 20, 09:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 993
Clock Discrepancy
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Forum: General
June 3rd 20, 09:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 993
Clock Discrepancy
Atomic clock supposedly synced ( sp ? ) by radio to some standard from out west ( Denver ? ) is always at least 2 seconds behind the computer. I'd think they'd be spot on. Comments ?
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Forum: General
February 28th 20, 07:54 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,320
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Forum: General
February 12th 18, 08:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 3
Views: 672
1st Daily Start Sound
Dell Inspiron about 6 yrars old. First startup or waking from sleep,
in a given day, and the CD drive is "jazzed" up then coasts back down
taking a couple of seconds. Makes no difference if the drive...
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Forum: General
December 27th 17, 07:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 1
Views: 649
Logitech Beats M$ Mouse
M$ mouse was never very smooth and sometimes would hang and then jump
forward. Very annoying. Someone suggested I try a Logitech and wow
what a difference. Smooth, responsive and precise !
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Forum: General
November 18th 15, 04:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 397
Sleeping Computer vs. Shutdown ?
Powering up after shutdown, poses some problems restablishing an
Internet connection. These are not encountered when activating a
computer that's been "put to sleep". This last seems to involve,...
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Forum: General
June 11th 13, 10:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 2
Views: 421
Updates Won't Install
Late model laptop PC , will not process Windows updates. Otherwise
works OK. Just keeps giving the message that a restart is required to
install important updates. Updates are not installed on...
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Forum: General
January 28th 13, 08:26 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 14
Views: 799
Windows 8 Tutorial?
Windows 8 sucks !
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:35:32 -0500, wrote:
Sure would like to know what I have gotten myself into.
Anyone suggest a Good Windows 8 tutorial?
Thanks
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Forum: General
January 16th 13, 10:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 634
Startups in Windows 8
Windows 8 has several new main screens including the desktop. Two
prominant screens have all the startups now not accesible from the
desktop. How does one move startups between the screens?
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Forum: General
November 9th 12, 07:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 286
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